Herbert House, 24-28 Herbert Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1985. Print works.

Herbert House, 24-28 Herbert Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
young-wattle-plum
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1985
Type
Print works
OS grid reference
NS 577 669
Coordinates
55.87502, -4.27503
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Herbert House, located at 24-28 Herbert Street in Glasgow, was designed by Thomson, Turnbull and Peacock and dates back to 1898. This building is a free-style brick and iron framed print works, featuring red sandstone dressings. It stands four storeys tall, with a basement and an attic.

The ground floor showcases a wide central bay that includes a four-centred arched window with a keystone, which is divided by mullion and transom glazing. Decorative elements include thistle and oak leaf motifs in the spandrels, along with boar's heads. The outer bays feature a service entrance to the south and an office entrance to the north, which has a scrolled timber pediment set in a glazed panelled surround. Above this entrance, there is a triplet of segment-headed windows. Deep fluted consoles flank the outer bays and support a heavily bracketed first-floor balcony with an ironwork balustrade.

The central bay contains six pilastered windows on the first and second floors, with simpler detailing on the third floor. The outer bays also have a two-storey canted bay extending through the first and second floors, topped with a lunette window in the third floor, set within a voussoired and keyblocked arch. The building is capped with a modillioned main cornice, and there is an aedicule gable over the northern bay. The southern bay features a full-height attic storey with two arched windows and three segmentally pedimented central dormers. The roof is finished with slate.

Local climate

Herbert House, 24-28 Herbert Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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